firebaze

21 days agodiscuss

How does the US president change the view of the UK? Trump is a moron, reminds me at times of Idiocracy, esp. with UFC cage fights. However, the link to the UK eludes me

firebaze

21 days agodiscuss

It's the world leader in disguising it, yes, just after Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux

Almost no-one talks about that anymore. It's still mostly unsolved.

Children matter, right?

firebaze

21 days agodiscuss

Yes, by far.

firebaze

21 days agodiscuss

The UK genuinely has become the most scary country of all western democracies to me. I can't comprehend how this happened, and is still happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_sexual_abuse_cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

(This link list is just the tip of an iceberg)

And now they changed lanes to fully protect themselves against people who may uncover such cases.

firebaze

3 months agodiscuss

ChrisArchitect likes to have a word with you

firebaze

3 years agodiscuss

I know, not reddit, but I simply can't resist:

> Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965 by Don Nelson and Dick Pick [...]

firebaze

3 years agodiscuss

Sure, but to be frank, most of it deserves to be flagged (blogspam, tutorials, App-Store promo links and so on).

firebaze

3 years agodiscuss

Doesn't look like having been flagged at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412049

firebaze

5 years agodiscuss

In other news: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11405

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